LIFE at the top of the shops was on the timetable for pupils at Bootham School, York, when old boy Stuart Rose visited the Quaker school.
Mr Rose is chief executive of the Arcadia Group, which includes high street names like Dorothy Perkins, Principles and Top Man.
He spoke to business studies and economics students about his life in British business.
He was joined by Victor Watson, who is also a past pupil of the school, and is former chairman of Waddington plc.
Headmaster Ian Small said: "Quakers in business have a long and highly respected tradition - in York we think, of course, of Rowntree's and, further afield, Cadbury's and Fry's, not to mention the banks, Barclays and Lloyds, which were also founded by Quakers.
"To hear from our own old scholars of their business experience brings all that right up to the moment."
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